Doug Ervin
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Friday, March 19th, 2010By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.”
- Thomas Jefferson, in a [...]
Rep Doug Ervin: Capitol Comment
Thursday, March 4th, 2010By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
- Thomas Jefferson, fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
This week the Missouri House debated three separate proposed constitutional amendments.
HJR86 - Right [...]
Rep Doug Ervin: Building Castles in the Sky
Sunday, February 7th, 2010By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor - May 8, 1816
Last week Governor Jay Nixon delivered the annual State of the State address to the Missouri General Assembly, the [...]
Rep. Doug Ervin: Session Begins
Thursday, January 7th, 2010By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Republican citizens of Washington County, Maryland - March 31, 1809
This week the Second Regular Session of the 95th General Assembly was convened. This will [...]
November Clay County Republican Central Committee Meeting
Monday, November 9th, 2009This is a reminder that there will be a Clay County Republican Central Committee meeting on Tuesday, November 10th at the Courthouse in Liberty at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Commissioner’s Room on the top floor. Please enter through the side entrance (handicapped entrance) where the doors will be [...]
A Prescription for Health Care in America
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private [...]
Doug Ervin: The View From 1776
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
Words that stirred a people’s hearts towards independence:
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
“The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.”
- [...]
A Day of Remembrance
Sunday, May 24th, 2009By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God, …and that government of the people by the people and [...]
Crunch Time
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.”
- Ronald Reagan
With just two weeks left in the First Regular Session of the 95th General Assembly most of the priorities passed by the Missouri House of [...]
Stimulating Tax Policy
Friday, April 24th, 2009By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
- Mark Twain
One vexing problem with the state of politics today is the lack of concern for the long-term. Politicians find themselves more concerned with the short-term to get them past the next election, instead of looking [...]